CHAPTER II (C) and (D),
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Table C (ii).-DISTRIBUTION of all Non-commissioned Officers and Men for Telephones on Mobilization, including Clerks and Messengers after all telephones have been connected up.
Place or Office.
Royal Engineers.
Coolies permanently
employed as wiremen.
European Infantry Operators.
Messengers, native R.A.or Hong Kong Regiment.
Hong Kong Regiment Operators.
Temporary Messengers.
Coolies employed as
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Telegraph School
G.O.C.'s Quarters C.S.O.'s Office
Head-quarters Telephone Exchange Stonecutters West
Whitfield Barracks
Danger Flag Hill
No. 12 Hill
No. II Section—
Fire Commander, Belchers
Sandy Bay Gap
Mount Davis
Howitzer Position
No. III Section—
Head-quarters, Plunkett's Gap.. Mountain Lodge Middle Gap..
Sanatarium
No. IV Section-
Wong-nei-Cheong Gap Tytam Reservoir
No. V Section-
Lyemun Barracks
Sywan Redoubt
Tytam Gap..
Total
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6*
222
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2
30
12
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Remarks.
No special operator detailed.
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Worked by R.G.A.
O.C. Sections make their own arrangements as to order- lies, except at Lyemun Barracks.
Only one operator is re
quired for each station, the second is provided as a relief and would be available for defence of Section if necessary.
* 2 for Exchange and 1 for each of the four lines from Section Head-quarters. N.B.-Lyemun and Stone- cutters' lines remain on the Exchange.
† From Hong Kong Regiment.
NOTE. The R. A. telephones are manned under arrangements made by the O.C.R.A. All other "adminis- trative"
telephones are manned under arrangements made by the officers concerned.
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(D.)-Modes of Meeting various Attacks.
(i.) Attack from the Sea.
East or West Entrance.-Attacks on the eastern or western entrances will be met by the guns of the forts, and by the submarine mines, supplemented by the sectional infantry, and in the case of an eastern attack by the Brennan torpedo.
Landing on East. If an attack on the eastern entrance is supplemented by a landing of troops in Sywan Bay or on the Eastern Coast, the sectional troops can be reinforced by the whole of the Victoria and Kowloon Reserves, which might all be brought to the spot in about two hours.
Landing on West.-An attack on the western entrance might be supplemented by an attempted landing of troops in Sandy Bay and Taihowan and Kellet Bays. This would be met in the first instance by the troops of No. II Section present on the spot. These would be quickly reinforced by the infantry companies or the Volunteers from the Peak Section, and the whole Victoria Reserve, as well as, if necessary, by the Kowloon Reserve, which would move either by the main road by Belchers to Sandy Bay, or by Victoria Gap to Pokfulum, or both, as might be required.
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